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    Three different Kato GN smooth side passenger car sets, each only $0.99 plus shipping.
     
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    I'm guessing that those are unpowered display models. The bidders might know exactly what they are, we can't assume that they're model railroaders who will disappointed if they win.
     
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    I agree and gdmichaels doesn't need to add these to any listings of N Scale cars he maintains. I've seen this line elsewhere and they are unpowered, odd-scale and low-detail models.
     
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    I would hope not.
     
  19. gdmichaels

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    Thanks for the heads up. I will also steer the contributors away from this line.
     
  20. JMaurer1

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    If you are a Southern Pacific fan (like I am), you see these High Speed engines and cars OVER AND OVER AGAIN. They were a Readers Digest give away and are just junk. One year it was the train, another it was a set of cheapie Hot Wheels sized antique cars - you got one per month ("as our Free Gift to you!") as long as you accepted at least one ‘condensed’ book every three months AND subscribed to Readers Digest. The trucks don't even move on the cars. Here's the list of the cars and what they were 'copied' from (they are not actually FROM the company, just copied from their cars):

    Atlas 50' TOFC
    Atlas 40' steel gondola
    Lima 50' steel gondola
    Atlas PS-2 hopper
    Atlas 40' stock car
    Roco (or maybe Mehano) 40' tank car
    Atlas cupola caboose

    The stock car is lettered SP but has a D&RG reporting mark (lol). All of the photos on the boxes are actually photos of the original car that was knocked off and NOT the car that you actually received.

    The engine is a knock off of a GP-35 (with speed lettering and a GP-60 road number). The picture on the box is actually an Atlas GP-35 but that IS NOT what you get. You get a dummy locomotive that is ‘finger powered’.

    While it is possible to change the trucks and make these cars ‘operational’, none of these are worth making operational and (at best) are scrap yard scenery. I wish that EBay would stop allowing them to be listed in N scale…
     
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